Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

A cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast says another prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded as seas rose 8,000 years ago.

The skeleton was reburied at the oldest part of Mountain Home Cemetery during a Monday, June 30 ceremony, put on by the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American ...

Archaeologists in Thailand have uncovered the 29,000-year-old bones of a child — the oldest human remains ever found in the country. Unearthed in Tham Din cave, an archaeological site known for ...

NEW YORK — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation ...

An article to be published on July 31 in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population ...

Nation World One-legged Stone Age skeleton may show oldest amputation Scientists say the amputation was performed when the person was a child — and that the “patient” went on to live for years.

She was the first near-complete skeleton of a species of human ancestor called Ardipithecus ramidus. The paleoanthropologists who discovered her called her Ardi.

An article published on July 31 in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an ...